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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1907
Page
6
Letters from Battleford Sask to Chicago describe homestead opportunities in Western Canada. The writer details land values, equipment needs, and settler life, praising climate and rail expansion while recounting a family move with Harry and the writer’s son. The note ends with a personal update and a light humorous aside.
An 1880s style notice explains deafness results from an inflamed Eustachian tube, not local treatments. It claims eight to nine cases stem from catarrh, promises curing with Hall's Catarrh Cure and offers $100 for any deafness not cured by it, urging readers to request a free circular from J Cheney & Co.
A Chicago Tuter Orean reader describes a fantastical method for growing lettuce in minutes. Soaked seeds in alcohol planted in loam sprout leaves within twenty minutes, forming a fairy salad ready to eat. The method is presented as a dinner party novelty with lettuce beds blooming on cue.
The note asserts that in Germany the prefix von denotes nobility and is reserved for nobles or those ennobled by knighthood. It argues that non nobility cannot use von, while a knighted man gains the right to prefix his family name with von, using Alexander Humboldt as an example to illustrate the transfer of the prefix to descendants and estates.
A Wilkes Barre nurse testifies to Postum Wood Coffee reducing headaches and indigestion after switching from coffee. She notes improvements in patients and observes it aids milk flow in nursing mothers, provided it is boiled properly for 25 to 20 minutes and served with cream.
A fragmentary reminiscence recalls Miss Hilda Dnglund, a Swedish actress acclaimed for Ibsen and Strindberg, at a East Side restaurant party. The text also lists a long sequence of historical dates and events from 1101 to 1901, mixing anecdotes with a timeline of world history and notable personages.
Radical personnel reshuffle aims to promote younger officers for the Pacific cruise. Eighteen captains chosen to command ships, with fourteen younger than current leaders, signaling a shift to fast track younger leaders while moving seniors to rear positions in the department.
A man in Gorton sends a boy to deliver a note to a young lady named Miss Z. He pays the boy a shilling for the errand. The messenger returns with a note from Miss Z stating she will be glad to see him tonight but does not want the quarter.
Thousands of backlogged veterans returning from the Civil War face chronic kidney illness. Capt. J. Wy describes long pain and retention of kidney secretions before Doan's Kidney Pills cured him. The ad notes 50 cent boxes sold by Foster Milburn Co. Also mentions birds bathing on lily pads in parks as a pleasant sight.
Mrs. Kate Keim of 513 West 20th New York writes that her three children suffered eczema for five months with itchy sores on the heads. After using Cuticura Soup and Cuticura Ointment, the condition improved in a few weeks. no sores remained. Dates nov 1 5 7 1900.
The passage argues that each sex should occasionally separate to rest nerves and enjoy solitude, praising a club as an ideal place for men to be with men and women with women, allowing escape from opposite sex company and fostering independent social spaces.
A playful exchange suggests a home motto for a husband returning home. Mrs Dagg jokes about selling a motto as a wall decoration, mentioning a phrase Better late than never and a cheerful inquiry about options for house decor.
In Yonkers Statesman dialect heavy quotation, Bacon comments on a belt around a child to prevent harm, claiming it would tickle the child. Wehert adds that such a device might nearly kill the child with its effect.
A political crowd spars with remarks about courage and deeds. An old farmer questions the candidate’s honesty while a humorous line about a “Single Binder” cigar and the Lewla Factory in Peoria lands as a local quip.
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